Father fights mother over baby's life Source: CNN
A baby born with a severe birth defect put its parents on opposing sides in a British court Monday over whether to switch off the child's life support.
WordPress ReloadedSource: Web Designer Magazine
The WordPress phenomenon has taken the art of blogging to a global audience, and not without good reason.
Politics a lucrative business, watchdog saysSource: Gulf News
Mumbai: More than half of India's lawmakers running for re-election to parliament reported a 300 per cent increase in their assets since the last ballot five years ago, a survey conducted by a corruption watchdog said.
Why the White House's Embrace of Drupal MattersSource: TechPresident.com
Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House's new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website.

From my recent research I have detected 3 major trends in software development:
Obama using Drupal on Recovery.govSource:
This afternoon, in Denver, Colorado, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known in US political circles as the "stimulus bill".
Q&A: Integrating Content Management and BISource: TDWI BI This Week
In this Q&A, Bluenog co-founder and COO Scott Barnett explains the need for and benefits of an integrated suite of content management, portal, and business intelligence software.
Google to notify webmasters of vulnerable softwareSource: scmagazineus.com
The search engine giant said Thursday that it will alert site owners if they are running content management systems (CMS) or other publishing software that contains a security vulnerability, according to Google's Webmaster Central Blog.
WordPress Developer's Toolbox Source: Smashing Magazine
Web designers and developers are getting an increasing number of requests from clients for custom theme development, and a growing number of designers are also building their own themes to distribute for free or to sell as premium themes.

CMS platforms suck. Although powerful, most CMSs require developers to learn their system and model their site concept around it. Consequently, these systems are for mid to large-size sites, and thus smaller website designers are left with few options to turn to for a simple CMS.
Rule change will strand residents in nursing homes Source: Twin Cities Daily Planet
When a minor bladder infection landed Rachel Wilcox in a nursing home, it was almost her undoing.
Wilcox has had multiple sclerosis for more than 40 years and was living independently in St. Paul, but her health was getting more fragile and she was having falling spells.

Chris Pirillo, "Call for Help" guy and all around poster-boy for geekiness, is actually onto something much bigger and much cooler than you'd guess by his relatively unhip track record.
Back to DrupalSource: The Linux Journal
Phil Hughes of the Linux Journal discusses his experience in installing & configuring Drupal.
Is Wordpress going Social?Source: ma.tt
It's clear that the future is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a platform which has shown itself to be able to operate at Internet-scale and with BuddyPress we can make it friendlier.
Wordpress 2.5 Demo Site Source: wp.chrisjohnston.org
A demo site for the most current development version of WordPress. Version 2.5 has a scheduled release in March/April of 2008
Drupal 6.0 releasedSource:
After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle.
Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software Source: vivalogo.com
This is Vivalogo's list of best free, downloadable, open source social networking software (kinda hard to say all these words :) ).
Unlike some other lists you may find on the net, this one contains only really downloadable and functional software.
Note: listed in no particular …